Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Ballasting a F3X sailplane

It is always a problem to know exactly how to ballast a F3X plane given that they are several ballast compartiments with different size/volume, and none of them is exactly at the center of Gravity. I created the following spreasheet to help you how to determine the ballast, and also calculate the CoG variation.

3 comments:

This is something I have been dreaming about! Just get the numbers in and you will know what you are at. Simply amazing! I got it in my smartphone now with all the details for each of my gliders. Especially great while one is playing with a new toy.

Thanks Pierre! Looking forward to meet with you at Rugen come October.